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Subj: Mir Amateur Radio Status: April 26, 1999
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By Miles Mann WF1F,
MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)
SSTV Update from Mir crew:
Over the weekend MAREX-NA engineer Farrell Winder was able to have a short
conversation
with French Cosmonaut Jean-Pierre Heignere on board the Russian Space
station Mir (April 25, 19:11 UTC). During the conversation, Farrell asked
Jean-Pierre about the Mir crews work-load and about the status of the SSTV
system. Jean-Pierres response was that the Mir crew was very busy with
their normal experiments and that they would try to connect the SSTV system
when they have some free time. The Mir crew has been making random voice
contacts around the world, and many of the ground stations have been asking
Jean-Pierre the same question [when will you be able to see some more SSTV
images]. Jean-Pierre asked Farrell, what pictures would be the best,
Inside or Outside pictures from Mir. Farrell requested some new shots of
the Mir crew and some interior shots of Mir and some outside shots too.
Jean-Pierre commented that at the present time they were over a very cloudy
section of the USA. A few seconds later, Mir passed below the horizon and
contact was ended.
I would like to ask everyone to please be patient regarding Amateur Radio
operations on Mir. The Amateur Radio portion of the Mir experiments are
primarily OFF-Hours experiments. The Mir crews do have a very busy
schedule and only have a very limited amount of FREE-Time to use the
educational Amateur Radio experiments.
MAREX-NA ISS projects:
The MAREX-NA team has built and delivered three projects to the Russian
Space Station Mir. (TNC Modem upgrade, RF DCI filer project and the SSTV
Project). Because of the success of the three projects we have been asked
by Energia to submit a proposal for additional projects for the
International Space Station (Alpha). It was a great honor to be asked by
Energia to submit a project proposal. The MAREX-NA team has submitted one
draft proposal to build a SSTV project similar to the successful SSTV
project currently on the Russian Space Station Mir. The ISS SSTV version
will be very similar to the Mir version with a few additional features:
Tentative planed features:
Repeater Mode:
Allows ground stations to Relay their SSTV images, similar to a voice
repeater.
Remote Control camera:
Ground Stations will be able to remotely steer the camera from Earth.
At the present time the MAREX-NA SSTV International Space Station project
is in the proposal / consideration stage. If the project is selected, we
hope to deliver the final systems by the end of the year. The project will
be a joint project involving several satellite clubs. Each club will be
responsible for a different part of the project (antennas, power supplies,
etc.).
Last year MAREX-NA delivered three Kenwood/Tasco SSTV systems to Energia in
Russia. One of the systems is currently on the Russian Space Station Mir.
The other two SSTV systems are in Energia Russia and are being used for
Demonstrations and testing system. A demonstration of the MAREX-NA SSTV
system was given to the First cosmonaut ISS crew. The comments from the
cosmonaut ISS crew were (I want this on my mission).
Current Mir Crew Members:
SOYUZ TM-29 arrived at Mir on February 20, 1999. Mir Soyuz TM-29 crew
consisted of French cosmonaut Jean-Pierre Heignere, Viktor Afanasyev and
Slovakian Cosmonaut Ivan Bella
On February 28, some of the crew returned to earth, they were:
Slovak Ivan Bella and Gennadiy Paldalko.
Gennadiys mission lasted approximately 6 months (August 16 1998 – February
28 1999)
The remaining crew consists of:
The French cosmonaut Jean-Pierre Heignere
Cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev
Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev. Sergei mission began August 16, and is expected
to last a total of 9-11 months.
PMS Status (Personal Message System):
The PMS activity was a little intermittent last week.
MAREX-NA Web Page:
For more information about MAREX-NA and out past, present and future
project, please visit
our new home page:
www.marex-na.org
Tracking Mir:
For current tracking data, try the CelesTrak web page at
http://celestrak.com/
Copyright 1999 Miles Mann, All Rights Reserved. This document may be
freely distributed via the following means - Email (including listservers),
Usenet, and World-Wide-Web. It may not be reproduced for profit including,
but not limited to, CD ROMs, books, and/or other commercial outlets without
prior written consent from the author.
Images received from the MAREX-NA SSTV system on the Russian Space Station
Mir are considered public domain and may be freely distributed, without
prior permission.
Miles WF1F
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